François Bréa (towards 1495 - towards 1562) is a member of a family of painters niçois of 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries. François Bréa is the son of Antoine Bréa and Louisette, his wife. He had a fore-mentioned sister Jaumone. He is thus the nephew of Louis Bréa and Pierre Bréa. Specialists in the Retable S religious.

Works

• Sospel : cathedral Saint-Michel, retable with three shutters of the Immaculate Virgin of Sospel
• Saint-Martin-in Entraunes: retable of Saint Martin's day d' Entraunes (Virgin of the Rosary, 1555)
• Nice: St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre church, retable of the Virgin
• Tales: Holy-Marie-Madeleine church, retable of Holy-Marie-Madeleine, allotted to François Bréa
• Châteauneuf-in Entraunes: Saint Nicolas's Day church, retable of François Bréa, 1524.
• Monaco: cathedral, retables of the three Bréa, known as of the priest Tests.
• Roure : the St. Lawrence church shelters a superb retable, the Assumption of the Virgin , going back to 1560.

• It Cross-on-Roudoule: Church the Michaelmas romano-Gothic (fragments of retable of François Bréa).